Anthony Almeida came out of Dodge Ram after 8 pm on February 4, 2018, Super Bowl Sunday, soon from Philadelphia Eagles advanced 10 points on New England Patriots until the end of the first half.
Security cameras recorded in the grocery store have stopped stopping and shopping in Foxburo, Massachusetts, on Almeida to choose several elements. He paid cash but he entered his phone number at a credit card station to activate the store reward program. It was intended; He wanted to create an excuse.
A few hundred meters away, a character in the dark clothes approached a house that had a good reason to believe that it was vacant: a five -bedroom house described years ago as “larger than McMcuns, younger than an actual palace”, in a 2015 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED PROFILE From its owner, the star of the narrow Patriot Rob Grunkovsky.
Earlier this month, the FBI An investigation announced In a series of modern robberies in professional athletes homes – including the American Football Association stars Patrick Maelz, Travis Kelissy and Joe Buro – they were coordinated by investigators called South American theft groups (SATG). Federal Public Prosecutors accused seven Chilean men of their alleged roles in robbery, according to a criminal complaint that was not thrown on Tuesday.
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The FBI’s announcement on February 7 claimed that “athletes may be targeted because of their available tables, making their property more vulnerable.” The American Football Association and NBA sent security warnings to the teams in November, with The American Professional League note The theft groups describe as “well -developed episodes that include advanced technologies and technologies, including pre -simulation devices, drones and signs on signals.”
The robbery was in Gronkowski’s home, which was organized by the 26 -year -old Shin Din and his 31 -year -old friend, Mida, who is 31 years old, lacks this kind of development. Seven years later, Al -Mida, who said he did not know about the plan until the night of the crime, admits that the parts are “a kind of stupidity.” Almost everything was arrested on the video.
According to Almeida, who was running a construction company at the time, there was no different kind of attempt to theft on Dorschest Street around 2003, when he was about 17 years old and was a debt of about 12.
“He was intimidating for … I think he was Nintendo 64, and she interfered,” he remembered Mida. “Since that day, I think we have become friends. He loved me. I saved him from getting his purposes that I took from him.”
Al -Mida said he would do almost anything for a debt. So when his friend asked the elevator on the Super Bowl night in 2018, Al -Mida agreed. On a campaign to Foxburo – Den said, “Din has obtained the title of Gronkovsky from a woman who met her at a party, as Den said – Den told him his plan” to go to verify something, “according to Al -Mida, who said he reluctantly agreed to Help.
Al -Mida said: “He needed a journey there, and while we are driving, he tells me about his home and on this nature.” “In the beginning, I did not want (i.e.) involved (i.e.), so I just stayed in the parking lot on my truck.
“After that, I think I participated in myself.”
The husband made his way to the parking lot to stop and the store, who was limiting the Gronkovsky neighborhood. A security camera on the Almeida truck supported a place along the wood line near the Gronkowski neighbor’s house. The American Football Association star was about 120 yards of car parking – the length of the football field, including the final areas.
Record the Denn and Almeida video monitoring system, along with the Gronkowski fence. Around 8 pm, it appears that the cameras around Gronkowski’s house and the guest house in the property have apparently seized the Denn verification of the lower floor windows before leaving the property. The police report indicated that it is “very likely” that it broke a window and left to test if the home security system has been operated.
Less than an hour later, Denn surveillance cameras ignited inside the Gronkowski house, at some point in storming a closed bedroom, then walking later towards the window window while sticking safely and bag.
The video footage indicated that the Almeida truck left the parking site upon stopping and shopping and returned to the area several times that night. Al -Mida said he was “about to leave the donkey (religion).” But he remained, and religion returned in the end. Al -Mida said that he grew up when Dean said, “Something about weapons.”
Al -Mida said: “I am not a person carrying a gun or even hanging around people with weapons.” “So when he mentioned something about a pistol, it was a matter,” I need to reach somewhere and take you and all this S -SH – from my truck. “
After the robbery, the two men went to one of the relatives of a debt in Queens to divide them, then separated. The next day, Gronkowski and his colleagues at home arrived at the Super Bowl home in Minynabolis and noticed that the bottom floor door was broken.
Gronkovsky, whose agent did not respond to interview requests, called on the police to report the proposal. No elements of it were stolen. Robert Gon, one of his colleagues at home, had the majority of the elements captured, including watches, jewelry, rare metal currency and three pistols. In all, thieves were made with less than $ 200,000 from his room.
“We failed to run the alarm when we left,” Gon said. “But I don’t think this would have prevented these men because they had a mission. They knew what they were doing. They knew how they were entering.”
GOON, 44, was described in the 2015 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED file as “a friend and a close (WhO) who holds the position of Gonk contractor, dishwasher, airport driver, security guard and colleague in the room.” He moved out of the house in recent months and still remember the details obtained from the 2018 video clips, including Denn playing the lower floor light and looking directly to one of the cameras. Gon said he was not wearing anything to cover his face.
Gon said: “To this day I still do not understand what they were thinking about or why he would do it.”
According to Goon, Denn removed the elements off the Goon’s Dresser and removed the wardrobe on the wall inside his wardrobe. The three stolen pistols, which Gon said were closed in cabinets inside a drawer in his table, disturbed him more than others.
He said, “They are fatal weapons.” “If they are in the hands of the error, they can do terrible things.”
It did not take long for investigators to zero in the perpetrators. Observing footage of the interior and outside the houses, stopping and shopping, and yes, so that Dunkin ‘Donuts is included between the evidence in the 2018 Decree report. The authorities received advice on stolen metal currencies – USD in 1879 and an American dollar 1896 – was found in a merchant in Wimouth.
On March 23, 2018, the authorities carried out an inspection memorandum at Almeida’s house, found the watches that were reported between the lost elements. Almeida, Den, and Eric Terril, who was then a co -worker in Almeida who tried to mortgage the coins, were eventually arrested and accused in the Supreme County County Court. Denn arrived in the 2018 listening session wearing T -shirt Patriot.
Al -Mida acknowledged that he was guilty of one felony of collapse and entry, three charges of theft more than $ 250 and one charge of theft from a building. He was sentenced to four years in prison.
In 2020, Din, who did not respond to multiple requests for comment, received a four to five years in prison in the state prison, followed by three years under its release. Terril, who could not be accessed for comment, admitted that he was guilty of receiving stolen property and was sentenced to two years in prison. Almeida and Denn were also ordered to pay $ 69,500 as compensation, which GOON has not been fully paid.
Gon said that he and his former colleagues at home climbed their security “10 times” after the 2018 incident. His advice to athletes now?
“You must protect yourself,” said Gon. “If you are going to get expensive things in your home, just make sure you have the best safety.”
(Clarification: Dan Goldfarb / Athlete; Kevin C Cox / Getti Emaiz)
